Fabrice Deprez

2 weeks ago | eastradar.substack.com | Fabrice Deprez

Hello everyone, yet another departure from the newsletter’s usual format, as I wanted to highlight and comment (in length) just two stories I’ve come across recently that touch on important and very current issues. One is about the threat of an authoritarian slide in Ukraine. The other is a call to “rethink” Crimea, 11 years after the Russian annexation, and as Washington pressures Ukraine to officially accept and recognize the 2014 land grab.

3 weeks ago | la-croix.com | Fabrice Deprez |Correspondant à Kiev

Le fossé d’incompréhension et de méfiance qui a séparé durant trois ans une partie de la société ukrainienne du pape François est peut-être apparu pour la dernière fois au grand jour avec l’annonce de sa mort le 21 avril. Un décès accompagné en Ukraine d’un mélange d’hommages officiels respectueux et de rappels grinçants aux « déclarations scandaleuses » de ce pape régulièrement accusé en Ukraine d’avoir fait preuve d’ambiguïté face à l’invasion russe depuis son déclenchement en février 2022.

1 month ago | eastradar.substack.com | Fabrice Deprez

KYIV—It’s an understatement to say that a lot has happened since this newsletter last went out in early January. So let’s just dive in: you’ll find in this issue four interesting stories (about the arrest of Ukrainian military officers; Ukraine’s working class; about the trip Ukrainians looking to leave the occupied territories are forced to endure; and about the controversial derussification process in Odesa) and my thoughts on why I think these stories matter.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Fabrice Deprez

Donald Trump’s Oval Office bust-up with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the brief suspension of US military aid to Kyiv have strengthened the Ukrainian president’s domestic popularity, leaving his opponents in a quandary about how to challenge his leadership. Ukrainians have rallied around their leader in the weeks since Trump questioned Zelenskyy’s democratic legitimacy, calling him a “dictator without elections” and tearing into him during a bruising encounter in the White House.

1 month ago | msn.com | Fabrice Deprez

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